Firefox 3 Vs Ie 7 Vs Safari 3.1

[Guest Reimar]

Firefox 3 vs IE 7 vs Safari 3.1

A few short years ago the browser war seemed dead and buried. After Microsoft’s Internet Explorer usurped Netscape’s Navigator in the late 1990s, it’s domination of the Internet seemed complete, over 95 percent of us using a version of IE.

Those days are gone. The guts of Navigator were reborn in 2004 as Firefox, a browser that has been drinking more and more of IE’s milkshake ever since. Firefox now owns at least 18 percent of the market, with some estimates giving it more than a quarter. More recently, Apple has threatened to start a three-way fight, using the software updater included with iTunes to slip its Safari browser onto PCs. While its market share is miniscule – less than one per cent among PC users and around three per cent overall –Safari offers a PC users a credible third choice.

Meanwhile, IE 7 is groaning under the weight of bad press, criticised for its instability and sluggish performance. Apple is trumpeting Safari 3.1 as the world’s fastest browser, while Firefox 3 – which is now out of beta and into the Release Candidate stage – is claimed to be over twice as speedy as its predecessor.

PERFORMANCE

To get a perspective on how the browsers perform in the real world, we stepped away from our highly-specced Vista desktop and ran all our tests on a more typical office machine, a laptop running Windows XP on a 1.73GHz Pentium M chip with 1GB of RAM.

We then put each browser through its paces, asking them to load and reload five websites: our own gadgetzone.com.au homepage, smh.com.au, afl.com.au, au.yahoo.com and an international news site in the shape of nytimes.com. We repeated all our speed tests three times, clearing the cache when necessary, to produce an average result.

Read the full article HERE

[A_Traveller]

And when the article came out many complained about not including Opera.

Regards

[george]

Just did a lookup in the thaivisa server logs, and users of this site use these Top 5 browsers:

TOP Browser Versions 
	NAME			Percent
1.	MSIE 7.0			36.61
2.	Firefox 2.0.0.14		29.65
3.	MSIE 6.0			20.97
4.	Mozilla 5.0			4.73
5.	Firefox 3.0			2.08

[Guest Reimar]

Just did a lookup in the thaivisa server logs, and users of this site use these Top 5 browsers:

TOP Browser Versions 
  NAME			Percent
1.	MSIE 7.0			36.61
2.	Firefox 2.0.0.14		29.65
3.	MSIE 6.0			20.97
4.	Mozilla 5.0			4.73
5.	Firefox 3.0			2.08

And where's Safari?!

Opera even had an update a few days ago but is still in Beta testing phase and NOT RC1!

Cheers.

[george]

We use truehits.net for tracking stats, and it looks like they don't even care about Opera, so that browser is not included in our stas. Will look at some other browser stats as well and post it later.

[A_Traveller]

The percentage still using IE6 is interesting, especially since it is an non-validating download and install now.

Regards

[Gary A]

Since I have a slow Internet connection, browser speed is important to me. I have used Opera and trying to use it as my only browser was a problem because some site don't display properly. IE 7 is too slow but IE 8 may be a lot better when they get the bugs eliminated. Firefox was my favorite but it had problems too. Losing passwords and sometimes freezing and resetting by itself irritated me. I'm pleased to say that Firefox 3 has so far been flawless and seems a lot faster. I also have Safari installed. It is fast and I have had no problems other than the lack of an ad blocker. Until they come up with an ad blocker, it is out of the question. Firefox 3 is the best for me at this time.

[george]

Here is Google Analytics stats for Thaivisa.com Forum for the last month (attached).

Analytics_www.thaivisa.com_20080424_20080524__BrowsersReport_.pdf

[freitag1]

Thanks George that's interesting! In my opinion Firefox will be the number one for the foreseeable future just because of the variety of great extensions they have. Screw IE anyway.